Example sentences of "it was more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Forrester , Whelan , Bowman etc I got the impression that it was more desparation that made him turn to the younger players , granted their performances were top notch but I think the injury situation had more to do with it than Wilko 's judgement , after all where are they now ? ? ? |
| 2 | Perhaps it was more evidence of a Celtic past . |
| 3 | To Kate it was more evidence of her importance to him , and her treacherous heart gave a leap of hope . |
| 4 | He also followed up a rumour that another ME I 10 had crash-landed north of Glasgow the same night , although he did not get to the bottom of it , and assumed it was more evidence of the Scottish Saturday Night . |
| 5 | It was hit and miss , and it was more miss than hit . |
| 6 | The f I often find that really the first year it was more fun and er then when they started on the plays and that it got more serious and |
| 7 | That was his reward for a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in a cavalry regiment and it was more money than Sharpe had ever earned in his life . |
| 8 | I mean he liked his job in here right enough but it was more money and better conditions in the glaziers so |
| 9 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 10 | And what they used to sell a er er at er in the lace market at dinnertime , they used to make a big roly pudding , like that , with jam in it and sauce on it , white sauce , it was more water than sauce , you know ? |
| 11 | Well , it was the last straw , apparently , to be told by this cultivated , clean , excessively reasonable , and controlled favourite son , in these hideous surroundings , that Vincent really should n't have come here ; that it was more foolishness , another dead-end , when he could have gone to university and made everyone happy , including himself . |
| 12 | Abolitionists successfully used the convention drastically to reduce the freedom of parliamentary action and to claim that it was more representative of national opinion than the legislature . |
| 13 | Er yes just er no really a service it was more hires than anything else . |
| 14 | It was more years than she cared to remember since she had last seen a man stare at her in frank admiration . |
| 15 | Er er it was more sort of solid er er where er Twelfth Night seemed to jump . |
| 16 | It was more wind than what was the hurricane after to the North East . |
| 17 | It was more trouble than it was worth . |
| 18 | Well , they 'd got the skeleton that wanted a big brass lock but er oh you know , lovely and er it was more trouble getting the thing through the pan to get er the case than putting the insides in it , if you follow what I mean . |
| 19 | But er it was only u until I left the school cos I was only a matter of eight when I left that school so er I was n't in a it was n't in any progressive sort of style then I mean we wer it was more rudiments of education that we were taught and er |
| 20 | You were n't doing anything individual it was more communion thing you were making the likes of if it was brown bread you 're all standing rolling up and chaffing brown bread and putting them in tins . |